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Put up to four subscriptions side by side and see what you gain or lose — in plain language.

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Feature Microsoft 365 Business Premium ✕ Microsoft 365 Business Basic ✕
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Business email Exchange Online mailbox & calendar ✓ ✓
Teams Chat, meetings and channels ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites, file storage ✓ ✓
Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Desktop Web & mobile
Conditional access Entra ID Premium sign-in policies P1 —
Device management Intune for laptops and phones ✓ —
Endpoint protection Microsoft Defender on devices Business —
Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 —
Data loss prevention Stop sensitive data leaving ✓ —
eDiscovery Legal hold and investigations ✓ —
Insider risk Detect risky user activity — —
Teams Phone Cloud phone system — —
Power BI Pro Reports and dashboards — —
Windows Enterprise Enterprise edition licence — —
Email & collaboration
Bookings ✓ —
Clipchamp (video editor) ✓ —
Email & calendar ✓ ✓
Email archiving & retention ✓ —
Forms ✓ ✓
Kaizala ✓ —
Microsoft Loop ✓ —
Planner & To-Do ✓ ✓
Skype for Business (legacy) ✓ ✓
Stream (video) ✓ —
Sway ✓ ✓
Teams (chat & meetings) ✓ ✓
Viva Engage (Yammer) ✓ ✓
Whiteboard ✓ —
Files & content
Microsoft Search ✓ —
Office for the web ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive ✓ ✓
Universal Print ✓ —
Office apps
Office desktop apps ✓ ✓
Project ✓ —
Identity & access
Entra ID P1 (Conditional Access, SSO) ✓ —
Multi-factor authentication ✓ —
Devices & management
Basic Mobile Device Management ✓ —
Intune (full device management) ✓ —
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse ✓ —
Windows Update / Autopatch ✓ —
Threat protection
Defender for Cloud Apps ✓ —
Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) ✓ —
Information protection & compliance
Data loss prevention (DLP) ✓ —
eDiscovery & investigations ✓ —
Information protection & encryption ✓ —
Analytics & automation
Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents ✓ —
Dataverse ✓ —
Power Apps (seeded) ✓ ✓
Power Automate (seeded) ✓ ✓
Viva Insights ✓ —
Viva Learning ✓ —
AI
Copilot chat (data protection) ✓ —
Business applications (Dynamics 365)
Dynamics 365 (business applications) ✓ —

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